Al-Qaeda’s leader called on fighters to determine who killed his chief representative in Syria, a man many militant groups believe died at the hands of a rival militia, in a move that highlighted a conflict between rebels that has killed hundreds.

Millions of Afghans have started voting to choose a new leader in an election that could lead to the first democratic transfer of power in the nation’s 5,000 year history.

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by the families of three American citizens killed by U.S. drones in Yemen, saying senior officials cannot be held personally responsible for money damages for the act of conducting war.

Twenty civilians have been killed and dozens wounded, including women and children, after the Syrian regime used vacuum bombs to attack targets in Aleppo’s countryside, according to civil defense groups.

Death toll in the Syrian conflict has exceeded 150,000, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has documented violence on the ground since peaceful protests first broke out on March 2011 before quickly evolving into a raging war.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has signed a request to join several UN agencies in a move that could derail a US push to revive faltering peace talks with Israel.

A massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake and tsunamis hit the northern coast of Chile, near the port of Iquique, and prompted a warning for the country’s Pacific coast, Chilean officials have said.

At least 17 dead bodies has been recovered till yet from a mass grave in terrorism-hit Khuzdar area of the Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday.

Two students were killed Sunday when security forces dispersed a protest by Al-Azhar University in eastern Cairo, according to students.

suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car targeted a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border on Saturday evening, killing three soldiers, the Lebanese military said.